an a mortar
pestle 30 cm. long, and Poulet mentions a pederast who accidentally
killed himself by introducing a similar instrument, 55 cm. long, which
perforated his intestine. Studsgaard mentions that in the pathologic
collection at Copenhagen there is a long, smooth stone, 17 cm. long,
weighing 900 gm., which a peasant had introduced into his rectum to
relieve prolapsus. The stone was extracted in 1756 by a surgeon named
Frantz Dyhr. Jeffreys speaks of a person who, to stop diarrhea,
introduced into his rectum a piece of wood measuring seven inches.

There is a remarkable case recorded of a stick in the anus of a man of
sixty, the superior extremity in the right hypochondrium, the inferior
in the concavity of the sacrum. The stick measured 32 cm. in length;
the man recovered. It is impossible to comprehend this extent of
straightening of the intestine without great twisting of the mesocolon.
Tompsett mentions that he was called to see a workman of sixty-five,
suffering from extreme rectal hemorrhage. He found the man very feeble,
without pulse, pale, and livid. By digital examination he found a hard
body in the rectum, which he was sure was not feces. This body he
removed with a polyp-forceps, and found it to be a cylindric
candle-box, which measured six inches in circumference, 2 1/2 in
length, and 1 1/2 in diameter. The removal was followed by a veritable
flood of fecal material, and the man recovered. Lane reports
perforation of the rectum by the introduction of two large pieces of
soap; there was coincident strangulated hernia.

Hunter mentions a native Indian, a resident of Coorla, who had
introduced a bullock's horn high up into his abdomen, which neither he
nor his friends could extract. He was chloroformed and placed in the
lithotomy position, his buttocks brought to the edge of the bed, and
after dilatation of the sphincter, by traction with the fingers and
tooth-forceps, the horn was extracted. It measured 11 inches long. The
young imbecile had picked it up on the road, where it had been rendered
extremely rough by exposure, and this caused the difficulty in
extraction.

In Nelson's Northern Lancet, 1852, there is the record of a case of a
man at stool, who slipped on a cow's horn, which entered the rectum and
lodged beyond the sphincter. It was only removed with great difficulty.

A convict at Brest put up his rectum a box of tools. Symptoms of
vomiting, meteorism, etc., began, and became more violent u